So not only has SLXS not been nominated for a blog award (Time to stop blogging now!), Hitler hasn’t been either. Shaun Oakes sent me this, for those of you who read local blogs, you’ll enjoy the lolcats and weather mention…but someone forgot the morning headlines which was naughty. Check it!

Via

Is anyone else as confused as me when it comes to the pricing of Apple products in the South African market? Now let’s forget import taxes and dealer mark ups, let’s just look at the basic facts, clean and simple.

A Macbook is listed at $999. Locally, we’re looking at paying R11000 for a Macbook. So in that case, we take the dollar price and multiply it by 11 to find the ZAR price.

An iPhone 3GS 8GB on the Apple website is $99. Locally, an 8GB iPhone 3G is R7100. That is now suddenly 71 times more than the dollar price! 71 TIMES! Digicape, are you smoking crack? Have you got foetal alcohol syndrome? Are your directors raging alcoholics? Are you saving up for an end of year staff party in St Barts?

While Digicape don’t have iPhone 4 prices up yet, PC Direct do.

iPhone 4…how is this more expensive than a Macbook, when it is over three times cheaper in dollars?

They’re a cool R12782, that’s more expensive than a Macbook. Excuse me, but WTF is going on here? Are the South African public being treated like we have learning disabilities and can’t see what is going on here?

Let’s round that iPhone 4 price down to R12000 for the 32GB…that’s 40 times more than the dollar price. ($299 US) So the iPhone 4 is more expensive here than a Macbook, and yet a Macbook is $999 and an iPhone 4 is $299.

So the South African prices range from 11 times, to 40 times, to 71 times the dollar price…is no one else seeing this?

SERIOUSLY IT FEELS LIKE I’M ON CRAZY PILLS AT EARTHDANCE!

Can anyone provide me with answers?

Digicape?

PC Direct?

I guess it’s hard to speak though when you’re at your million dollar staff party, and there is an eight ball in your mouth.

Now I know a lot of you don’t use Twitter, and I’ve never made much of an effort, but then I looked and I have 300 followers which isn’t too bad, so I thought we’d chat quickly.

A lot of people post links and business stuff on Twitter, talking about how awesome they are, how awesome their lives are, what they are doing, how well they are doing for themselves, how awesome their jobs are etc. I don’t care about these people, I just care about having a laugh. So if you want to increase your IQ, find links to articles that will make your life better, or learn anything new, then don’t follow me. Follow me if you want to have a laugh and learn how to live life less seriously. To show you an example of what you can expect on the seandlloyd (D for Danger) Twitter account, here is a posting from this weekend, with the caption ‘I am officially banned from toys r us’:

Yes.I.Am.Awesome. I obviously erased it before leaving, but it would have been kind of cool if I just left it.

Click here to follow me, and see more awesome stuff! Twitter is basically small little bits of my life, sort of like a mini SLXS. It’s my ideas and thoughts, and allows you a small gap to the inner working of my brain. Put all those little bits together, and you have the complete me, the SLXS you read.

Rad stuff people!

It’s no surprise that so many people are using Obox for their Wordpress templates these days, the Hout Bay boys are killing it! I’ve been using Obox for…well forever, 2oceansvibe Radio are using Obox, Cape Town Girl…everyone loves some Obox. For those of you wanting to start a photography blog, Photolist is the latest from Obox and it is once again, some more awesomeness. Let’s check the beast out:

The Home Page

On the home page, I really dig the slider at the top, where you can scroll through some selected galleries, ones that you may want to feature prominently on the site.

Gallery

So you click through to a set of photos, and that brings you to a page where you can click individual photos, and they are enlarged at the top of the gallery, like this:

Very, very cool! If I were a photographer (Not to say I’m not!) I’d be using this theme right away. No messing about with these free themes that some people use, what is this, home school? Photolist is perfect for photographers wanting to offer an online gallery for their work, without paying some ridiculous price for web design.

I use Obox for a couple of reasons:

• Design. I find some theme designs too ‘perfect’ shall we say. Almost too clinical. Obox themes have a certain flair and alternative feel to them, focusing on minimalism a lot of the time. I always feel that content is what makes a blog, and this is true on all blogs. Obox just package that content in a very streamlined look that I love. And all their themes are compatible with all modern web browsers.

• Price. $30 for two Obox themes? You cannot go wrong.

• Support. The support from Obox is amazing, post a question to the forums, and the guys will get back to you quickly, with the right answers. I’ve never had a hassle with Obox.

• Themes for people who just want to publish. Whenever I chat to people, they assume that I know everything about how a website works. The truth is, I have no idea! Obox themes are for people who want to publish content quickly and easily. You don’t have to delve into the code to install Google Analytics or your logo. Adding and removing adverts is made simple, and can be done by anyone. I’ve had people ask me how their themes work (Bought from other companies, Studio Press being an example) and some of these themes are a nightmare to try and figure out. Not with Obox. Everything is simple and straight forward, leaving you with time to blog, not browse through code and manuals on how your theme works.

So if you’re looking to start a blog, or are just looking for a fresh new theme, then have a look at Obox themes. And take advantage of their 2 for 1 offer, two themes for the price of one. That’s 2 themes for $30!

So I tried to complete my registration for the SA Blog Awards (Thanks for all your votes — let’s see if we make it!) and this is what it gives me:

Not approved? RAD!

Is it because I’m different? Because I’m not one of the cool kid SA bloggers who have a million links in my blogroll? Is is because I stray from the safety of safe writing and safe behavior? Is it because of this photo doing the round of me massaging Postman Pats nose?

Do I not participate properly in the blogging fraternity? Do I not stick by the ‘rules’?  Should I start another overdone photo blog? Do I not post enough? All the cool kids are going for the quantity vs quality/originality idea of writing these days…

In fact, I should act spoilt and before I know that I haven’t been nominated, I should drop out of the awards due to a gross lack of confidence. In the judging panel.

Jeepers, imagine that?

Neville — killing kids dreams of a sneaky handski/mouthski from their bird before their folks pick them up outside McDonalds

Crisis, he’s still there, going strong!

Not much talk of him moving up the ladder at work, our boy is at the top, making sure kids aren’t jerking each other off at the movies. Running into the movies with his torch, all Horatio Caine style.

Neville you LEGEND!

So I swung down to Brandhouse yesterday for a little presentation, and I was surprised to see some people I knew, and some people I knew of. Rory and Gareth from Halo Live were in attendance, I spotted Raoul from UrbanNinja.co.za, Shaun Oakes and some of the other blogging elite, as well as the crew of Stacy and Carrie and all the other crew who keep me in the know.

(Just to interrupt, please do yourself a favour and vote for Urban Ninja for the blog awards, it’s an amazing site for inspiration, and I’ve been reading it for about 6 months now, with a place on my blogroll for a good few months now, deservedly. There was an awesome piece posted today, click HERE to read that. And you can vote from that page as well, there is a blog awards banner there)

Basically it was an informal get together to learn about the history of the brand, where it is going in the future, and the fact that finally, bloggers are starting to get noticed as a proper part of the process. The last party, Smirnoff Mashup Street, was a very one sided affair, where bloggers were used to promote the event, but not much more was given for their work. For Project X (The next Smirnoff party), a certain number of the top bloggers in South Africa, will be integral to the marketing of the event, which I’m really excited about. The fact is, all my friends, and people like me at my age, aren’t going to News24 for their news, they are going to the established and trusted blogs in South Africa for their daily news. We don’t serve it up like News24, we have a real approach to news and events, offering a fresh perspective on what is happening in your world. We’re live at events, we’re hands on, and best of all — we’re not boring.

The Smirnoff chat yesterday was really cool and I was genuinely interested in hearing about the history of Smirnoff, and the mixologist, whose name I forget (Garcon, where is my notepad?) gave an awesome talk and also gave us some history on drinks such as The Screwdriver as well as the Long Island Ice Tea, while also getting us involved. I was pulled up to do some tricks with the bottle, of which I couldn’t!

Hey sexy!

Boozing at lunch

Chilled office

Oh…hi there…

Me and glass and a hard floor and a difficult trick = bad idea!

I’m quite excited that Brandhouse and Smirnoff have realised the potential in bloggers at getting the word out about events and getting people amped for them. It feels like the day has finally come where blogging is just a little nearer to closing in on traditional media, which no one seems to be reading that often anymore for the news they really want to know. So I’m pretty excited, and you’ll be hearing more on SLXS in the coming weeks about what is being planned.

And thanks to everyone involved, in what is set to become a very exciting project!

(If you’re new to SLXS, why not have a look at some of the popular articles? The ones that make us awesome. Click here for those )

So I’ve been trying to apply for a PDP license, because if you crash a car full of strippers, and you are being paid to drive them, you need a professional driving permit. Naturally, being the man of many passions that I am, I hold down many aliases.

I had to have a clear criminal record, so all my details had to be sent to Pretoria. About 6 weeks later they came back, and now I’ve had to submit those, and now my license needs to get sent to me…from Pretoria. This, they say, will take two months. All VERY organised and effective, and not a waste of my time AT ALL. By the time I get my license, I will either be dead, be a drug addict or be in an old aged home. Charming.

Anyway, the lady behind the desk was also flippin’ helpful and happy, I wasn’t aware that staff were made to eat lemons for lunch? Very weird. I also wasn’t aware that they needed to walk in a manner that the Hunchback of Notre Dame did, and talk out their noses. Mind you, if I worked in a place with no light and a sort of vomit colour to the walls, and it was named after a place where people get hung, I would also be hugely depressed.

I’m stoked though that the place has been upgraded, and I see they have also retrofitted the parking area with people who piss and shit themselves, and also have some sort of affinity for drinking meths.

It’s all so CLEAN and new age! God, Sepp Blatters World Cup money got us a brand new traffic department. With a brand new staff complement plucked from the gutters of obscurity!

I like to park my shiny new car in the parking lot, and then have it looked after. In fact, the security is so tight (Mind you: loose. Sies) that they even have dogs!

And if you’re really important, you get a car guard so passionate, they sit at your car. Gold Star service!

Car guards: Pissed. Clean.

I must say, it’s quite impressive to see such quality service in Cape Town. And if anyone complains we can klap them.

Because we’re supporting the currently disadvantaged/currently doos dronk/ currently hungover people of Cape Town.

And that’s a service to humanity.

Not on your face, but they’re coming your way. And you should hide the kids, because Dan Nash is going to do something outrageous to get thrown out!

I’m not good at self promotion which is why I haven’t asked you to vote for me, but seeing as though the nomination phase is about to come to an end, I better ask you lot if you’ve voted!

I never really hear from you people, the only reason I know you’re here is because of Google Analytics. From this I can guage important information like cup size, the colour of your underwear, your address, it gives me access to your Facebook photos and just all the essential stuff.

Anyway, I’ve been nominated for every SA Blog Awards I’ve entered into, but I’ve never won which causes me huge amounts of distress. I would win if they had a category for “Best Has Been SA Blog” I was once blogging royalty, clubs even let me in for free for some time, and people in the street high fived me instead of keying my car. Gosh, I remember the blogging glory days. When blogs were rare, instead of everyones 2 year old snot nosed kid running a blog.

Because we still run a cool show here, I’m 100% certain that an award would make me an even better writer! So SLXS has been nominated in the Blog Of The Year as well as Best Entertainment Blog category. But I may need some more votes in order to actually make  to the next round of voting (The actual voting phase, this is just the nominations phase)

Quick: How To Vote For SLXS

To vote you need to click the following badge, where you will be taken to a nomination page on the SA Blog Awards. The badge you click below has all the information on which categories SLXS have been nominated in, so you don’t need to choose a category, it has all been done for you (We’re going for Blog Of The Year and Best Entertainment Blog)

Click to vote for SLXS

• From there you need to enter your e-mail address and a security code (To verify you are an actual human and not a computer) on the right hand block on the page.

• Then click ‘Submit’

• You will then receive an e-mail with a link to click. This is the final stage of your nomination for SLXS, and you need to click the verification link to nominate SLXS. Click that and bang…We’ll be well on our way to winning!

There are a few other blogs that you should also be voting for, please do support these guys, as they are the other blogs I read, and I’d be proud if SLXS or any of these guys won an award at the SA Blog Awards. They all have nominations badges on their site, you just need to click their names, click their badges and vote, in the same way as you did for SLXS:

Slick Tiger — Because he wrote the Slick Tiger Guide To Klapping Gym Boet. Enough said.

Bangersandnash.com — Nash is a rock star, and still just ‘get’s’ what blogging is about. It’s not about writing about every stupid thing just to get higher search results and get paid, Nash has based his site on solid writing, and he’s not afraid to try new things. He blogs about things he has actually done, and he does them in the most decadent and debaucherous ways possible — in a haze of cigarette smoke and alcohol. And he wants to get thrown out of the SA Blog Awards (HERE). I am BEYOND excited about this years awards, thanks to Nash.

MyCityByNight — I remember a time when I could party like these guys, so in essence I live my hedonistic days through Craig and the guys at MyCityByNight. They cover virtually every single party in Cape Town, and you will love them! They’ve even interviewd Danny K. JUSSUS!

Man Of The Cloth — If you’re a guy and you want to dress better, there is no other fashion blog that you need. Man Of The Cloth’s Marco is actually in the fashion industry, which helps! He’s stylish and smart, and knows how to make people look good.

And that’s it, let’s try win something!

Thanks for your support, and also, since I started blogging again in the old school way, SLXS is going back to the top. Pageviews are up 55.70% according to Google Analytics.

Sweeeeet!

Most people were upset yesterday that they missed the cooling towers in Cape Town being blown up, because they blew up 4 minutes early or something. You probably also missed the jet that flew through them:

Gosh, I can’t believe you missed that.

Were you drunk or something? Were you on tik?

(Thanks Jerry D)